Mission and Family
After Yuri and his SSS unit capture some suspected enemy spies, he's tasked with going after his next target, a writer who frequently writes anti-Ostanian propaganda and sells it to the West. While tailing him, Yuri discovers that the subject he's investigating, Franklin Perkin, is a former journalist who was fired from his job due to writing articles that were critical of the Ostanian government, and occasionally does freelance work to pay the rent and have enough money for food for him and his elderly father. While following him, Yuri and the captain see Franklin taking random pictures, but Franklin believes that the shots he took are worthless. However, when he sees some boys playing with a replica of Bondman's pistol, he takes it away and throws it in a dumpster. As the boys dig through the rubbish for the toy, he takes a picture and says that he'll caption it about how Ostanians have to dig through the trash for food due to government mismanagement. When the boys threaten to sic the SSS on Franklin, he responds that their greed is what will get them arrested. When Yuri follows Franklin to his job, he finds out that the reason Franklin has been able to smuggle his anti-Ostanian propaganda, despite having not met any suspicious persons during the entire investigation, is because Franklin works at the post office. Despite Ostania routinely censoring mail, Franklin has been using his position to mix his articles into the mail that's been cleared by the censors. Franklin thinks about not mailing the recent article he wrote, but ends up mixing it with the rest of the cleared mail. One morning several days later, Franklin spots Yuri and his unit waiting outside his apartment building, and he tells his father he "won't be back for a while." After peacefully surrendering himself, Franklin calls out Yuri for being a "government dog," but Yuri still assures Franklin he'll make sure his father receives some money to help him by, which Franklin appreciates. That evening, Yuri visits the Forgers' home, where he's happy to see Yor, and jealous that Loid and Anya are there. After Yor gives him a head pat, Anya reads Yuri's mind and is disgusted as to how happy he is about it.
The Elegant Bondman
Any watches the latest Spy Wars episode, where Bondman goes on several missions where with the aid of his female, sidekick, he faces off against numerous female adversaries and saves the day by sweet-talking them into joining him. When the women realize he's trying to build a harem, they turn on him and attack him. The episode ends with Bondman injured and embarrassed.
Omake-1:Heart of a Child
The Forgers go to a department store where Anya asks to ride a coin-operated polar bear ride.
Omake-2: The Heart of a Child
Anya asks Yor and Loid to take her to the ocean, but Loid takes her to the local pool. Anya has a fun time swimming, but then reads the minds of several kids who peed themselves while in the water, and back home Anya states she hates going to the pool.
Omake-3: Waking Up
In the Eden College dormitory, Damian wakes up Emile and Ewen so they can get ready and head to class early, meanwhile, at the Forgers' residence despite her alarm clock ringing and Loid yelling at her, Anya is in a deep slumber, and is late for school.
Mission and Family
- Action Prologue: The episode begins with Yuri and his unit arresting some suspected spies, and Yuri taking out a gunman who took a shot at him.
- Big Brother Is Watching: The SSS use their vast surveillance network to root out spies and arrest dissidents. This segment also establishes that mail in Ostania is routinely censored.
- Cranky Landlord: Franklin has a grumpy landlady who comes knocking on his door and demanding the overdue rent.
- Day in the Limelight: This segment focuses on Yuri's job as an agent of the State Security Service (SSS), and the methods he uses to root out dissidents and suspected spies.
- Dissonant Serenity: After the captain and other members of the SSS bust the suspected spies, one of the suspects jumps out a window and is casually greeted by Yuri. When the suspect pulls out a gun and takes a shot, Yuri disarms and takes him down while smiling and calling him a piece of trash.
- Everyone Has Standards: Yuri is more than willing to get his hands dirty for the state if it means keeping his beloved sister safe, but he's understanding enough to provide government assistance for the family of someone who gives themselves up without resistance.
- Freudian Slip:
- Yuri makes it a point that he took down the suspected spies at the beginning of the episode because he wants to keep his beloved sister safe from harm, and while listening in on Franklin, the Captain reads Yuri's most recent report and noticed that he wrote that Franklin eats a meal the "Yor" restaurant. He asks Yuri if he meant the "Fjord" restaurant.
- Yuri also has a platonic example in this story. After monitoring Franklin for a few days, Yuri comes to the conclusion that part of the latter's motive is to provide for his father. Yuri types that in the report, then realizing his seniors would frown upon such a conclusion, so he disposes of that page and rewrites a new one.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Both Franklin and Yuri see the former's "freelance" writing job of selling anti-Ostanian propaganda as a desperate means to make ends meet since working as a postman means Franklin doesn't earn as much money as he did when working as a reporter.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When Franklin sees Yuri outside his apartment building, he knows the jig is up and gives himself up without a fight.
- Loophole Abuse: Despite Ostania routinely censors their mail, censored mail is transferred within the mail system without much security. As a result, post workers like Franklin can mix in letters that certainly won't pass censorship by dropping them in the censored mail cart.
- Malicious Slander: Yuri is assigned to follow and detain Franklin who's under suspicion of selling anti-Ostanian propaganda to the West, and in his investigation, Yuri sees Franklin take a staged photo to show ordinary Ostanians digging through garbage for food. Although Ostania is a totalitarian state, the reality is that baring the constant surveillance, the average citizen has no real need for basic necessities, and Franklin is writing anti-Ostanian propaganda to make ends meet, as his job as a mailman doesn't pay enough to sustain himself and his elderly father. Franklin selling anti-Ostanian propaganda also serves as a sort of payback for losing his better-paying job as a reporter after he wrote several articles critical of the Ostanian government.
- Manipulative Editing: Franklin tosses a boy's toy gun in a dumpster to force him and his friends to look for it. While they do so, he takes a photo of them to make it look like Ostanian children are forced to go through the garbage on a daily basis.
- Mood Whiplash: The majority of the segment has a serious tone, in which Yuri is tasked with arresting Franklin Perkin, a former reporter who got fired for writing articles critical of the government. Yuri discovers that Franklin, whose current job as a postman is not enough to sustain him and his elderly father, has resorted to writing and smuggling anti-Ostanian propaganda for extra cash. After Franklin is arrested, Yuri assures him that his father will get some government assistance to help him make ends meet. At the very end, Yuri goes to the Forgers' apartment and is ecstatic seeing Yor and jealous that Loid and Anya are there, but when Yor pats him on the head, the excitement inside his head grosses out Anya.
- "Not So Different" Remark: On the second day of his investigation, Yuri, whose main motivation for working in the SSS is keeping his beloved sister safe, writes in his report that Franklin sells anti-Ostanian propaganda to the West in order to make ends meet and to support his elderly father. As Franklin's being taken away, he makes a quip about how Yuri's just a "government dog," and Yuri responds that he would never do something to make his family sad, and assures Franklin that his father will receive money from the government to make ends meet, which Franklin appreciates.
- Oh, Crap!: The suspected spies at the very beginning of the episode panic when Yuri and his unit bust them, with one of them jumping out the window and trying to shoot Yuri, who calmly disarms and beats him down. Franklin reacts like this when he sees Yuri and his unit outside his window, though he figures there's no point in resisting and gives himself up without a fight.
- Pet the Dog: Despite him working with the secret police and taking sadistic pleasure in brutally arresting traitors to his home country, Yuri at least is willing to provide financial support for Franklin's elderly father.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Franklin was fired from his well-paying job as a reporter because he wrote articles critical of Ostania's government. Unfortunately, his new job as a postman doesn't pay as well, and he has to resort to writing and smuggling anti-Ostanian propaganda, which puts him in the crosshairs of the SSS.
- Workaholic: Yuri's superior mentions that he's been working non-stop on his recent surveillance assignment. It's gotten to the point that he's making typos featuring his sister's name.
The Elegant Bondman
- Bait-and-Switch: Initially, the setup seems to suggest that, just like how Bondman was the prototype for Loid, "Agent M" would serve as a parody of Yor or Sylvia, and proceed to parody the main show itself. Instead, it quickly becomes clear Bondman is just charming every single woman around him, and none of them serve as direct counterparts to anyone in the series.
- Breather Episode: The segment helps lighten the mood following the serious and somber theme of the previous segment.
- Chick Magnet: The episode of Bondman features the spy hero romanticizing every woman in his path like a cheap, corruptible bimbo.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Anya is "enlightened" to at last know what a soap opera is, just like her friend Becky.
- Harem Seeker: As Bondman himself puts it, he won't rest until he puts a smile on the face of every woman in the world, successfully managing to charm an entire apartment's worth of women. Deconstructed in that, even if the women love him and he wants to form a harem, unless they're okay with sharing or practicing polyamory, the women he charms are not gonna be kind to his goal, and instead see him as a shameless flirt incapable of committing to a single relationship.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Bondman tries to make a harem made up of his female sidekick, female villains, and random women. When the ladies find out about this they attack him and the episode ends with Bondman injured and embarrassed.
- Mood Whiplash: Serves to brighten the mood of a somber episode.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: After the women find out that Bondman is trying to build a harem, they slap him, punch him, stab him, and even shoot at him, and culminates with what appears to be an atomic bomb blast. The episode ends with asking viewers to tune in next time him, and Bondman bleeding and making an embarrassed face. Justified in that Bondman is a cartoon character.
- Show Within a Show: Anya is seen watching the latest entry of the "Spy Wars" cartoon.
Omake-1:Heart of a Child / Omake-2: The Heart of a Child / Omake-3: Waking Up
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Anya asks Loid to take her to the ocean, but Loid compromises with taking her to the local public pool, which Anya happily agrees to. However, after she reads the minds of several boys who peed themselves while swimming, Anya tells Loid and Yor, back at home, that she hates the swimming pool.
- Breather Episode: All three omakes are much lighter in tone when compared to the first main segment.
- Corner of Woe: At the end of "The Heart of a Child," Anya does this back at home after reading the minds of the boy(s) in the pool who peed in it.
- Continuity Nod: In "Waking Up," Damian reassures Emile and Ewen that his sleeping in the previous week was a one-off incident.
- Don't Try This at Home: The show reminds the kids at home watching not to pee in the pool.
- Foil: In the Eden College dormitory, Damian wakes himself, Ewen, and Emile so they can get to class early. Back in the Forgers' apartment, despite an alarm clock ringing right next to her head and Loid Yelling at her, Anya wakes up late and doesn't get to school on time.
- Heavy Sleeper: "Waking Up" shows it's nearly impossible to wake Anya up; she'd treat Loid's shaking her up as part of her (Spy Wars-themed) dream.
- Putting the Pee in Pool: Several boys pee themselves in the pool because they couldn't get out in time.
